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  1. Re:water shortages are bullshit on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    from 70 oF

    As you become acclimatized, this number goes up. We used to cool our house down to 84F, 29C, and it seemed normal. And as the population ages, old people prefer warmer temps.

  2. Re:water shortages are bullshit on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    My dehumidifier will produce 40L of water/day. In a very humid environment with about 20kwh of energy. ~0.5kwh/L is very poor performance no matter how cheap energy is.

  3. Re:Proof of Concept: Phoenix on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    And people are saying the people already living there are in trouble.

    Since the 70's (as far back as I remember).

  4. Re:Siiiiigh on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 2
    I grew up there. Phoenix is very much thriving, moreso than many places I've seen in my travels.

    I used to hate it growing up there, but now that I'm older, I don't know another place where I'd rather live, except it is becoming very crowded with people moving from more hospitable places to live.

  5. Re:a horse long bolted on China Says Foreign Firms Won't Be Forced To Turn Over Technology (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You've got to be pretty stupid to develop something when you can more easily take (steal) it.

  6. Re:God help us all on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I owned a rat when I was a kid. They only live to be two years old. I was almost 15 before I learned to integrate. If they figured it out in under two years, they are doing pretty good.

  7. Re:The Oppenheimer Moment on Sean Parker Unloads on Facebook 'Exploiting' Human Psychology (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a mobile phone. Even a landline for that matter. All of my friends have been on email for more than thirty year.

  8. Re:And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be' on Sean Parker Unloads on Facebook 'Exploiting' Human Psychology (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Good thing they only know false information about me. I only aware of one person who uses(d?) fb

  9. Re:132,000 suckers on Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's way less than the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

  10. So when my mom tells me to take out the garbage on Apple Plans To Start Selling Its AR Headset By 2020, Bloomberg Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All that I hear is "Go ahead, play your video game the rest of the night. Tonight is Friday."

  11. Re:Time pressure on Laika, the Pioneering Space Dog, Was Launched 60 Years Ago Today (space.com) · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Back in 1984 on Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Apologizes For Data Breach, Blames Russians (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't even recall this happening during the cold war.

  13. Al is just short for algorithm.

  14. Re: Metal and Plastic on 3D Printing Doubles the Strength of Stainless Steel (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    And after WWII, Japan went to Zeiss and wanted to use their lenses. When they were denied,thy had to invent it themselves and in so doing surpassed Germany.

  15. Re: Metal and Plastic on 3D Printing Doubles the Strength of Stainless Steel (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It has its uses, but then so do many other manufacturing techniques; why don't we hear about those? And how much of this is actually 3D printing vs material science or epitaxy?

  16. Re:Time pressure on Laika, the Pioneering Space Dog, Was Launched 60 Years Ago Today (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Germany was really the first into space. Above the Kármán line

  17. Came here for this comment. Glad to see it's #1.

  18. Re:The next old series on CBS To Reboot 'The Twilight Zone' (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    again

  19. Re:What about agriculture subsidies? on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:What about agriculture subsidies? on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As much as they might like to think so, I seriously doubt most Californians would like to be Russian.Or socialist.Or anything other than Californians.

  21. Re:cause my boss likes us here on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    Could it be the organization itself and it's hiring criteria. I've for many companies in a couple different industries and noticed a difference in employee dedication to the job, and it doesn't seem to be money related. Some jobs are just more interesting than others and seem to attract a different class of worker?

  22. Re:cause my boss likes us here on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    may indeed be a perception

    Companies are driven more by data, ie cold hard money, than perception.

    Can you imagine a bean counter announcing, "Hey! Look how much money we are saving by allowing people to work at home. It will be very expensive and impact the bottom line, but we need to get them back into the office ASAP."?

  23. Re:No.. on Microsoft Quietly Announces End of Last Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AC is a known liar.

  24. Re:Because games are about telling stories on Xbox One X is the Perfect Representation of the Tech Industry's Existential Crisis (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    What was the story of PacMan, one of the most,if not the most, popular games in history?

    Highest grossing games